Welcome, sorry you live "down there". Up north "here", I can leave for FS roads from my yard, being across the crick from NF land. The PCT is a short 10 minute drive from home with the Bucks Lake Wilderness there. Most of the folks I've bped with have moved on, split up from our small forum/Yahoo group. Life gets in the way I guess. I still do a few trips a year with folks I met there, but back to mostly solo bping and camping trips as I collect old stoves and to get some use out of them, I go out more. Good to see younger folk getting out, too bad about the mb injury, I collapsed a lung and cracked three bones maybe 12 years ago a few miles from home on my mb. A overnight stay in the hospital to let the lung reinflate. Fun.
Duane